Prior to 2009, one was able to assign a material to a part,say Brass, and easily change the Crosshatch to ANSI31. ANSI31 bestrepresents the crosshatch type we should be using according to theAustralian standard.
Then, when detailing the part, or inserting this part into anassembly, the crosshatch would comply with the standard (we canstill vary the angle and spacing to suit, though).
Now, someone at SWX thought that things were not complicatedenough, and decided to revamp the Material dialog box and in theprocess, prevent the user from assigning a different crosshatch toa specific material.
All the options are greyed out, and unless I waste time and try tofind out about "Custom", "Favorites" or God knows where else thiscould be changed, I am well and truly stuffed.
The issue is, I have no choice but accept the default hatch for thematerial, and in EVERY instance where the part is used and appearin a drawing, I have to change the crosshatch... Arrrhhhh...
So unless someone knows an easy remedy to this issue, all I can sayto the Dude at SWX who made this change to the interface: Mate,haven't you got anything better to do than fiddling around withparts of the software that work fine! Go and fix the bugs we keeptelling you about!
SolidworksDrawings And Detailing
Then, when detailing the part, or inserting this part into anassembly, the crosshatch would comply with the standard (we canstill vary the angle and spacing to suit, though).
Now, someone at SWX thought that things were not complicatedenough, and decided to revamp the Material dialog box and in theprocess, prevent the user from assigning a different crosshatch toa specific material.
All the options are greyed out, and unless I waste time and try tofind out about "Custom", "Favorites" or God knows where else thiscould be changed, I am well and truly stuffed.
The issue is, I have no choice but accept the default hatch for thematerial, and in EVERY instance where the part is used and appearin a drawing, I have to change the crosshatch... Arrrhhhh...
So unless someone knows an easy remedy to this issue, all I can sayto the Dude at SWX who made this change to the interface: Mate,haven't you got anything better to do than fiddling around withparts of the software that work fine! Go and fix the bugs we keeptelling you about!
SolidworksDrawings And Detailing
